Mt. Vernon native Richard L. Schnake, a Springfield lawyer, has received the 2025 Distinguished Attorney Award from the Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association.
The award is the highest honor the SMBA bestows.
The award recognizes an SMBA member who has exhibited exemplary standards in the practice of law for 20 or more years, whose practice of law epitomizes the highest legal and ethical standards to which all attorneys should strive, and who has actively served both the legal and non-legal community…